On the night of September 17, 2016, 36-year-old Phillip Cyprian III was found shot inside a residence in Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Police Department ruled his death a homicide and opened an immediate investigation; it was the city’s 16th homicide that year. Investigators processed the scene and asked the public for help, but in the days after the killing no suspects or motives were publicly identified.

Cyprian was an arborist known for his tree-climbing skills and is remembered by family and friends as a loving husband and father of three. No arrests have ever been made in the case, which is now treated as a cold case. If anyone has information about what happened on September 17, 2016, or about Phillip’s life and contacts at that time, please share what is known.